primatologist
- noun
- /ˌpraɪməˈtɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- Dr. Tara Stoinski, a renowned primatologist, studies the social behaviors of gorillas in the wild.
- primatologist at the University
Examples
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Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees is the first giant screen film about this world-famous primatologist and her work among the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.
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Beginning with the pioneering studies of wild chimpanzees by the primatologist Jane Goodall and of mountain gorillas by the primatologist Dian Fossey, investigators have watched apes in their natural habitats for more than four decades.
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But a modern primatologist would agree that we have very strong pro social instincts because our our survival depends on it.
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He is a British primatologist who has been at Harvard directing the Pan lab for many years.
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I'm also reading the last book Toshisada Nishida, the eminent Japanese primatologist, wrote before he passed away recently.
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Craig Stanford, the author of Upright, is an accomplished primatologist who has specialized in studying the behaviors of African apes.
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"Aye-ayes are becoming a symbol of wildlife conservation in Madagascar," notes Princeton University primatologist Alison Jolly.
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"Aye-ayes have probably been lurking throughout Madagascar all along," says Alison Jolly, a Princeton University primatologist and author of several books on Madagascar's unusual wildlife.
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From 2001 to 2005, more than 5,000 western lowland gorillas in Africa died from Ebola, according to Magdalena Bermejo, a primatologist at the University of Barcelona.
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Observing moustached tamarins in the wild, University of Illinois primatologist Paul A. Garber recorded only one aggressive act for every fifty-two cooperative ones he saw, such as collaborating to gnaw open hard fruits.
Academic text (2009)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word primatologist comes from primate, the name for monkeys and apes, and the ending -ologist, which means 'one who studies'. The root of primate is the same as prime, meaning 'first', so a helpful way to remember it is that a primatologist studies the 'first' or top group of mammals.